South Sudan to resume oil exports via Sudan on Wednesday after nearly 1-year hiatus

South Sudan to resume oil exports via Sudan on Wednesday after nearly 1-year hiatus

South Sudan's Petroleum Minister Puot Kang asks oil companies to begin work immediately, with initial production of 90,000 barrels per day

By Benjamin Takpiny

JUBA, South Sudan (AA) — South Sudan announced that oil exports through its northern neighbor will resume on Wednesday after nearly a year of disruption due to the Sudanese civil war.

Landlocked South Sudan will begin production with an initial 90,000 barrels per day, the country's Petroleum Minister Puot Kang announced on Tuesday, directing all oil companies to begin work immediately.

The main pipeline transporting South Sudanese oil for export via Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast was shut down in February 2024 due to damage caused by the armed conflict between Khartoum's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

"With the force majeure having been officially lifted by the government of Sudan through its letter dated Jan. 4, and based on that, the Ministry of Petroleum and partners would like to declare that the starting date for Dar Petroleum Operating Company (DPOC) resumption is as early as tomorrow," Kang explained to reporters in the capital Juba.

This is the day the country has been waiting for, he said, asking the Petroleum Ministry and partners to direct DPOC, in collaboration with Bashair Pipeline Company (BAPCO), to resume operations immediately.

Since last year, he said the two countries' petroleum ministries, along with their partners Dar Petroleum and BAPCO, have worked tirelessly through several technical and political meetings and arrangements to ensure the resumption of oil exports and receive supplies from Block 3 and Block 7, the two onshore oil fields in South Sudan's Upper Nile State.

"Our target is 90,000 barrels per day, which is what the pipeline will accommodate in the first phase. However, if we can increase further, we will. So our goal for the first six months is 90,000 barrels per day, and we will go from there," he said.

The partners expressed concerns about the technical readiness to export oil, the lifting of force majeure, and security assurances, but BAPCO, the company responsible for the pipeline and its security, addressed those concerns, he said.

Sudan declared force majeure in March last year after the main pipeline carrying oil from South Sudan through Sudan for export suffered stoppages linked to the war between Sudan's army and the insurgent Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

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